The Essential William H. Whyte

by Albert LaFarge

The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements, The Last Landscape, The Social Life of Urban Spaces, and City: Rediscovering the Center, as well as many of Whyte's articles from Fortune Magazine.

Genres: Urban Planning, Urbanism, Urban, Nonfiction, Cities, Sociology, Design

402 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although it's shelved with landscape architecture and urbanism books for its content prefiguring Suburban Nation, I found the excerpts from "The Organization Man" more interesting, for its relationship to the "Organization Kid" article.